Arabic edit

Root
ذ ب ح (ḏ-b-ḥ)

Etymology edit

Noun of place from the verb ذَبَحَ (ḏabaḥa, to slaughter).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

مَذْبَحَة (maḏbaḥaf (plural مَذَابِح (maḏābiḥ) or مَذْبَحَات (maḏbaḥāt))

  1. slaughterhouse, abattoir
  2. (figuartively) massacre, slaughter, carnage, butchery

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Ottoman Turkish: مذبحه

References edit

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “مذبحة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN